If you run a trade or a small local business, you don't have time to read another article about SEO. What you need, right now, might just be five minutes to work out whether a job is actually worth the drive, or what to set aside for tax before the number gets scary. That's exactly the gap BuildMeA Projects is built to fill: 100 free tools, live today, with no sign-up needed to see your result.
Why We Built 100 Free Tools Instead Of Another Blog
Most of the advice aimed at tradespeople is generic. "Improve your local SEO." "Get more reviews." True, but not exactly actionable at 7pm after a ten-hour day. The free tools area started from a different question: what specific, nagging admin problem can we solve for someone in under a minute, for free, no strings attached?
That turned into a genuine catalogue: an MTD Ready Checker for Making Tax Digital deadlines, a Late Payment Interest Calculator that also writes your chase letter, a Markup vs Margin Calculator for anyone who's ever confused the two, and a "Worth the Drive?" Calculator for jobs that are further out than usual. Ninety-six more like them, across ten categories, all live now at /projects/.
What's Actually In There
The full catalogue is grouped so you can find what's relevant to your trade fast:
- Money & tax — VAT thresholds, CIS deductions, mileage claims, tax pots, break-even numbers
- Running your trade — pricing, day rates, GDPR policies, cancellation notices, quote follow-ups
- Builders & site trades — retention tracking, snagging lists, extras & variations sheets
- Material calculators — the numbers you need before you order
- Staff & payroll — rota, holiday and cost tools for anyone with a team
- Hair & beauty, Hospitality & food, Health & fitness — trade-specific calculators for those sectors
- For homeowners — tools your own customers might use before they call you
- For every local business — reviews, loyalty schemes, and local search health checks
Every one of them works the same way: open it, answer a few quick questions, and see your result immediately on-screen. Nothing is locked behind a sign-up wall just to view an answer.
No Catch, No Sales Call
A handful of the tools produce something you'd actually want to keep — a printable price list, a signed-off snagging sheet, a formal cancellation notice, a privacy policy for your website. For those, we ask for an email address at the point you want to download or export, and that's it. No sales call, no drip campaign. Every tool also carries the right disclaimer for what it does: statutory tools point you to HMRC or a qualified accountant where it matters, and anything that behaves like a legal document is clearly flagged as a starting point, not formal legal advice.
Built From Real Requests — And Still Growing
A lot of what's live started as a genuine customer question: "could you make something that works out my day rate properly?" or "is there anything that tells me if I need a waste carrier's licence?" If there's a tool that would save your trade time and it doesn't exist yet, tell us what's slowing you down — every request gets a real reply, and the roadmap keeps growing past this first 100.
Ready to see what's there? Browse all 100 free tools →
